Minerals Resource Rent Tax (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2012 (14 of 2012)

Schedule 2 Amendments related to assessments

Part 2 Alternative amendments

Taxation Administration Act 1953

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Part 4-90 - Evidence

Division 350 — Evidence

Table of Subdivisions

Guide to Division 350

350-A Evidence

Guide to Division 350

350-1 What this Division is about

The rules in this Division deal with the evidentiary effect of official tax documents for the purposes of certain taxation laws.

Subdivision 350-A - Evidence

Table of sections

350-5 Application of Subdivision

350-10 Evidence

350-15 Judicial notice of signature

350-5 Application of Subdivision

This Subdivision applies in relation to *taxation laws that are *MRRT laws.

350-10 Evidence

Conclusive evidence

(1) The following table has effect:

Conclusive evidence
Item	Column 1 The production of …	Column 2 is conclusive evidence that …
1	(a) a Gazette containing a notice purporting to be issued by the Commissioner for the purposes of a taxation law; or (b) a document that: (i) is under the hand of the Commissioner, a Second Commissioner, a *Deputy Commissioner or a delegate of the Commissioner; and (ii) purports to be a copy of, or extract from, a document issued by the Commissioner, a Second Commissioner, a Deputy Commissioner or a delegate of the Commissioner for the purposes of a taxation law;	the notice or document was so issued.
2	(a) a notice of assessment of an assessable amount; or (b) a determination under section 205-25 of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax Act 2012; or (c) a determination under section 210-30 of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax Act 2012*;	(a) the assessment or determination was properly made; and (b) except in proceedings under Part IVC of this Act on a review or appeal relating to the assessment or determination - the amounts and particulars of the assessment or determination are correct.

Prima facie evidence

(2) The production of a certificate that:

(a) is signed by the Commissioner, a *Second Commissioner, a *Deputy Commissioner or a delegate of the Commissioner; and

(b) states that, from the time specified in the certificate, an amount was payable under a *taxation law (whether to or by the Commissioner);

is prima facie evidence that:

(d) the particulars stated in the certificate are correct.

Signed copies are evidence

(3) The production of a document that:

(a) appears to be a copy of, or extract from, any document (the original document ) made or given by or to an entity for the purposes of a *taxation law; and

(b) is signed by the Commissioner, a *Second Commissioner, a *Deputy Commissioner or a delegate of the Commissioner;

is evidence of the matters set out in the document to the same extent as the original document would have been evidence of those matters.

350-15 Judicial notice of signature

All courts, and all persons having by law or consent of parties authority to hear, receive and examine evidence, must take judicial notice of the signature of every person who is or has been:

(a) the Commissioner; or

(b) a *Second Commissioner; or

(d) a delegate of the Commissioner;

if the signature is attached or appended to an official document for the purposes of a *taxation law.

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